Re: A bizarre new kids' sex craze sweeping the city's school
au1929 wrote:Megan's mom wonders where this all started and how the kids got so educated about sex. "I'm just wondering who started this whole thing and how it reached Megan in her Catholic school," Michelle Stecher said.
LOL!
Some things never change ...
ossobuco wrote:I just read somewhere (oh, but where?) that young women are keeping logs of numbers of contacts and types.. and comparing and contrasting, not entirely to have an extensive set of notches - though yes, to a certain number - but also not to rack up too many notches re future consideration from males.
Yep, very same story in a youth special of last week's Volkskrant here.
Newspaper had three full-page portraits of groups of kids, very cute: one of tough kids in Amsterdam, one of rich teenage girls in 't Gooi, and one of farmers' kids out in Brabant. Cool read. Anyhow, it was the rich girls that had the same, intricate system of keeping count of how many guys they had kissed with, french-kissed with, had oral sex with, had went to bed with. Talking 14-15 year-olds here. Girl who showed the journalist her notebook had lots of little crosses.
Its like a thing, you know? They edge each other on on nights out, "c'mon, kiss him", stuff, one ended up having sex outside the club the night reporter hang out with them. Stuff. Its all a bit younger and rougher than when I was in school, f'sure, but then they got more money now, go out more, there's these breezers that are wildly popular and get you drunk a lot quicker, and competitive standards of how 'real' you're supposed to be have just upped. The whole crosses thing seemed mostly to impress each other (and the boys!) -- asked about the crosses signifying intercourse the girl was asked whether she'd liked it - she said, "no, boys are egoistic". Sad, kinda.
Funny thing tho was the letters to the editor page today. One letter from the director of the girls' school, reprimanding the newspaper for focusing on the sensational, on "an incident" thats not at all representative for how most kids act, for ignoring all the constructive social projects these kids do in their free time. And one was from a parent:
"I would like to compliment the makers of the supplement about the youth [..] My daughter of 17 and my 18-year old son, who normally only read [the free newspapers and the cartoons] have both read it and from their reactions (laughing, shrieks of recognition, reading each other sentences aloud) you could tell that both the contents and the style greatly appealed to them." Heh.